Quotes about book
book years long
Most books germinate within you for a long time before they are ready to come out. I wrote several drafts of the novel over many years and when I finally got to the last one, it didn't take much time. Pankaj Mishra
book physicians walks
The book of Nature is that which the physician must read; and to do so he must walk over the leaves. Paracelsus
book physicians patient
Every physician must be rich in knowledge, and not only of that which is written in books; his patients should be his book, they will never mislead him.
book power people
Those who are socially inclined will find a new power to help humanity through the lessons of books written by noble and gifted people. Paramahansa Yogananda
book reading thinking
I don't want people to think that they can attain realization simply by listening to others or by reading books. They must practice what they read and hear.
book flirting two
Nerd herd, focus. You're here to help the fledglings. Dour One and Dour Two aren't important," said Aphrodite. "Dr. Seuss reference. I like it," Stark said, giving me a check-me-out-I've-always-read-books hottie grin. Aphrodite frowned at him. "I said focus, not flirt. P. C. Cast
book guarantees happy-endings
Life isn't a book. There's no guarantee of a happy ending.
book reading mind
I wish in my own mind I were more definite - that I was absolutely convinced I'd never direct someone else's script, but I keep reading scripts, because I might find something. Paul Mazursky
book red crap
Don't tell me what's in the Red Book. I wrote the goddamned thing. And I know that it's a lot of crap. Paul Martin
book thinking self
I have two books that were published quite some time ago. I start to read about three sentences. I have to close it. I am so self-conscious. Who did I think I was? Patty Duke
book chapel lays
The Sistine Chapel is an extraordinary work of education - it lays out all the early books of the Bible. Peter Greenaway
book skills sound
Better than all measures Of delightful sound, Better than all treasures That in books are found, Thy skill to poet were, thou scorner of the ground! Percy Bysshe Shelley
book long soldier
A bus came. The soldier turned away from her and walked toward it. Tatiana watched him. Even his walk was from another world; the step was too sure, the stride too long, yet somehow it all seemed right, looked right, felt right. It was like stumbling on a book you thought you had lost. Ah, yes, there it is. Paullina Simons
book heart thinking
There is a very definite Russian heart in me; that never dies. I think you're born and you live your life with it and you die with it. I'm very much an American - my books tend to be about American things, but inside there's that sort of tortured, long-suffering, aching, constantly analysing Russian soul underneath the happy American exterior.
book might injustice
A book might be written on the injustice of the just. Pauline Kael
book animal weather
Books have the same enemies as people: fire, humidity, animals, weather, and their own content. Paul Valery
book black-history process
I did a book in 1996, an overview of black history. In that process I became more aware of a lot of the black inventors of the 19th century. Kareem Abdul-Jabbar
book mean management
When it comes to housework the one thing no book of household management can ever tell you is how to begin. Or maybe I mean why. Katharine Whitehorn
book needs way
Ebooks have many advantages - publishers don't have to make guesses about how many books to print, books need never go "out of print", and hard-to-find books can be easily available. So far, the only limitation seems to be finding a way for the writer to be paid. Kate Grenville
book thinking quality
I don't think the physical object of a book has any sacred quality, so in principle I think ebooks are great - just another way for stories and story-tellers to connect.
book order paper
A big book is a hard thing to manage - I find the computer makes it easier to keep it in order, and to keep the old drafts (which I sometimes go back to) without drowning in paper.
book cat house
And so, we end with a beginning. Because every ending is really a beginning. All you need is a house that's old and creaky ... filled with lots of books ... a cat ... a person who's willing to try again ... someone who promises never to leave ... and most important of all ... a little Hope. Kate Klise
book kissing lightning-bolts
Finding the book was like kissing a lightning bolt. Karen Miller
book writing dedication
I'm probably the most loquacious author when it comes to my dedications. The reason is there is some symbolism there. I've been writing these books, bringing these stories to my readers who I love so much, and I have a greater love for my family. Karen Kingsbury
book thinking decision
So much of the way books get classified has to do with marketing decisions. I think it's more useful to think of literary books and sci-fi/fantasy books as existing on a continuum. Karen Russell
book white madness
Madness, as I understood it from books, meant a person who was open to the high white whine of everything.
book writing symphony
It took me the bulk of my twenties to write one book about a family of alligator wrestlers. Whereas somebody like Steve Martin is releasing his latest banjo symphony, having just completed another movie and acclaimed, best-selling novel.
book reading names
Heaven, Kiwi thought, would be the reading room of a great library. But it would be private. Cozy. You wouldn’t have to worry about some squeaky-shoed librarian turning the lights off on you or gauging your literacy by reading the names on your book spines, and there wouldn’t be a single other patron. The whole place would hum with a library’s peace, filtering softly over you like white bars of light…
book kicking ends
I'm kicking myself in the rear end every day, saying, 'Did I really book this many shows? What am I doing?' Justin Moore
book fall reading
I haven't had a chance to pick up a good book in a long time, because I've been either reading scripts or learning them or writing them. And so, by the time the day is done, I usually just want to click on The Bachelor and fall asleep. But I gravitate toward biographies and things like that. Justin Theroux
book reading focus
Actually, I'm reading a lot of my scripts. When I'm working on something, it's hard to find time. You're always prepping new material. You don't want to be buried in a book. It splits your focus a little bit.
book library body
Books are but dead bodies to you, and a library nothing but a catacomb! George MacDonald
book wind break-through
Now and then, when I look round on my books, they seem to waver as if a wind rippled their solid mass, and another world were about to break through.